I'm loving the irony of an anti-Muslim sentiment on the same page everybody is super concerned that Billy is ok.
You really get off on misrepresenting people's views that much?
So intellectually dishonest, just the usual type of attempt from your corner to paint an easily dismissible caricature of anyone who reflects on the role Islam has to play in attacks like these, and the ideology that motivates them, as a bigot.
You'll have to highlight said anti Muslim sentiment for me, because what I read was people who were reflecting on the role Islam plays in these attacks, rather than glossing over this uncomfortable truth. An important distinction to make.
No one cares if Billy is Muslim, it's irrelevant. We wish him well. No one has any hate for ordinary individual Muslims. It isn't bigotry to run a critical eye over Islam as a faith, especially when there are people being motivated to heinous acts via interpretations of Islam's holy book.
The hostility though, is being reserved for Islamism, which I'd assume Billy doesn't identify with.
You know, the ideology that's killing thousands upon thousands of other Muslims in the Arab world, as well as those French civilians from last night?
You not think it's time people reflected on this in an effort to end the violence? To find a solution to it?
All I see is people like you so desperate to take this discussion away from the relevant stuff, and to drag it into a bigots vs non bigots. To conflate any criticism of Islam as bigotry against Muslims as individuals.
It's a good thing to want to protect Muslims from genuine bigots, but you shouldn't use that to condemn well intentioned critical analysis of the role faith plays in these attacks.
People want solutions, and they all want to starve the Islamists of oxygen. I assume you do also?
By being so quick to cocoon this topic, of interpreting all reflection on the role faith plays in the violence, you're not just shielding ordinary Muslims, you're sheilding the Islamists and the terrorists themselves.
You are a gift to these people, as you shut down any critical, well intentioned, discussion on it down in a belief that such criticism could only be motivated by bigotry.
Islamists are thriving at present, and the shield of 'Islamophobia' is protecting them from mainstream criticism.
As I said, it's a good thing to want to stand up for ordinary Muslims, but it's about time people like yourself came around the table and joined the discussion. As it's a discussion we as a society need to have, and it's a discussion that needs to be led by ordinary Muslims like Billy.
